ANIMATA - new CD in preparation

In January 2018 we ll work once more in the Subtone studio in Dortmund (D) to finish the recordings of our new and second album.
ANIMATA
Christoph Haberer - drums, electronics, comp.
Sarah Buechi - voice, lyrics, comp.

2017-10-11

Sarah Buechi - Contradiction of Happiness (teaser video)

Our new album will be released on Intakt Records in February 2018.
I finally made a dream of mine come true and added three string players to our Swiss Jazzquartett.
As I am playing the violin myself since the age of five, this was an important step to me as a composer.
Here our teaser video for a first impression.
(Video by Jonas Ruppen)

Buechi Septett - We recorded our new CD!!

Two long rehearsals and three intense days @ 'Hardstudios Winterthur' with sound engineer Andy Neresheimer and the wonderful musicians listed below..
Thanks so much to all of you for your great effort and endurance!
Many thanks also to the team of the 'Hardstudios' for your great hospitality.
A special thanks to Susanne Abbuehl for her musical coaching day during our 3rd tutti rehearsal.
And many, many thanks to SRF and Peter Buerli for your support of our new album!!!
Buechi Septett - the contradiction of happiness
Sarah Buechi - voice + comp
Stefan Aeby - piano
André Pousaz - double bass
Lionel Friedli - drums
Estelle Beiner - violin
Isabelle Gottraux - viola
Sara Oswald - cello

2017-04-06

Wood n Bones Quartet + Shadow Garden @ Intakt Festival, London

Intakt Records Zurich organizes a festival in London from 16th until 27th of April 2017.
It will take place at the Vortex Jazz Club.
I will be playing with a newly composed project called 'Wood n' Bones Quartet' with Lauren Kinsella (voc), John Edwards (db) and Hannah Marshall (cello) as well as with my Swiss quartet 'Shadow Garden' with Stefan Aeby (piano), André Pousaz (db) and Lionel Friedli (dr).
Read here an interview about these two projects and the festival written by Sebastian Scotney (London Jazz News)
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2017/04/interview-preview-sarah-buechi-intakt_5.html
19th of April 2017 - Wood n Bones Quartet @ Shoreditch Church, London (Pre Premiere)
21st of April 2017 - Wood n Bones Quartet @ Intakt Festival, Vortex, London (Premiere)
22nd of April 2017 - Shadow Garden Quartet @ Intakt Festival, Vortex, London (Premiere) with reception at 7pm (organized by the Swiss Embassy)

Review Shadow Garden Jazzclub Lörrach

Shadow Garden @ Schaffhausen Jazzfestival 2016

review ANIMATA CD (FAZ, 14th of March 2016)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14. März 2016
ANIMATA
Christoph Haberer - drums, electronics
Sarah Buechi - lyrics, voice
Und das noch
I can't find any prototype for this CD, no similar way of connecting the vocal and instrumental concepts of sound: 'Animata' (Jazzhaus Musik).
It is the result of the collaboration of the young Swiss vocalist Sarah Buechi with her English lyrics and the widely experienced percussionist Christoph Haberer who seems to travel between ethnological research, machined astetics and electronical sound fantasies.
Buechi has proven herself to have a versatile way of singing. She possesses an almost girly and beautiful cantilena, which she can colour in marvelous ways or fuse with metal but from which she can distance herself as well with whispering passages, speech bubbles, yodel like colours and dramatic outbreaks.
The lyrics are all written by her. One is encouraged to read along with them at least once. They deal with wondrous love dreams, hunger for wisdom, love, joy, are cryptic, ordinary, philosophical, surreal, metaphysical.
While consuming the total work of art the lyrics play a minor role or even no role at all during the oustanding musical events and their totally different course on this journey. As for example in one piece where both knock about with sensefree scats. (u.o. FAZ, 14th of March 2016)
http://www.christoph-haberer.de/de/projekte/projekt-animata
buy it here:
http://www.jazzhausmusik.de

2016-01-13

Shadow Garden got 5 Stars in Jazz N' More

Our newest album called 'Shadow Garden' received 5 stars and is the 'CD recommendation' in the Jazz N' More magazine (January, 2016). Text by Steff Rohrbach

SRF Jazz Aktuell - CD Shadow Garden

listen to the Interview about the new CD 'Sarah Buechi - Shadow Garden' with Jodok Hess
within the program 'Jazz Aktuell', broadcasted on Tuesday, 24th of November 2015, 8-9pm
(The Interview takes place on the track from 5'52 until 22'50.)
http://www.srf.ch/sendungen/jazz-aktuell/jazzfestival-unerhoert

Poster Aurodhan Garden, Pondicherry

ANIMATA will be playing concerts in South India from the 30th of September until the 10th of October 2015.

2015-08-28

Interview Handelszeitung - Inline, Lucerne

a portrait by Mirjam Oertli
Foto by Linda Polleri

2015-08-16

ANIMATA on Tour in India

With concerts in different parts of South of India, ANIMATA will be a musical guest of the Goethe Institutes Bangalore, Trivandrum and Chennai and furthermore play at the Gallery Audhoran in Pondicherry, at Jazz Goa through the German Council in Goa, the B-Flat in Bangalore and, very importantly to me, we will be a part of the Golden Jubilee of KCP, school of my wonderful gurus' Sri T.A.S. Mani and Srimati Ramamani.
Happy Birthday, KCP!

2015-06-29

Review Flying Letters @ Musikwoche Braunwald

This was our last concert with our album Flying Letters.
We ll have a summer break and will be back in the autumn 2015
with concerts and our new album called 'Shadow Garden'.

Authorized CVT Teacher

After 3 years of studies I am now an 'Authorized CVT Teacher' together with 46 other singers all over Europe and the States
http://completevocalinstitute.com

2015-05-26

New CD Shadow Garden recorded!!

Two weeks ago we recorded our new album - Shadow Garden - in the Hard Studio in Winterthur. The release on the Swiss label Intakt Records will take place in October 2015!
Sarah Buechi - voice, lyrics + composition
Stefan Aeby - piano
André Pousaz - double bass
Lionel Friedli - drums
Many thanks to Radio Studio DRS and Peter Bürli, Andy Neresheimer, our sound engineer, the Hard studio team and Susanne Abbuehl for her musical guidance

2015-04-25

London meets Switzerland

London meets Switzerland at Jazzahead Bremen in front of the stall of Intakt Records.
Enjoying myself in between two great musicians...
From left to right: Lucas Niggli, Sarah Buechi and Liam Noble

2015-02-11

television broadcasting of WDR3 jazzfest

Here a link to the live streamed sum-up of the whole WDR3 Jazzfest, where I played a concert with German sax and clarinet player Niels Klein in a collaboration called 'wiresongs' on the 29th of January 2015.
http://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/westart/westart_jazzline/videowdrjazzpreisausdortmund100_tag-09022015.html
Niels Klein - cl+ comp.
Sarah Buechi - voice + comp.
Frank Wingold - guitar + comp.
Matthias Nowak - double bass
Etienne Nillesen - drums

This song is called 'the answer is yes'.. It s kind of a love song but also about realizing the naivety and superficiality of a relationship.. the ending of the song isn' t a happy one.

2014-11-25

WDR Jazzmeeting - Animata live

ANIMATA (Christoph Haberer drums/elctronics + Sarah Buechi, voice
Radio broadcast of the 22nd of November 2014 with three songs from our concert in the Domicil, Dortmund; '21. Jazztage Domicil' + interview with Domicil-Programmer Waldo Riedl about our duo.
At about 1 hour into the program you can hear our three songs 'Mensura/Brother of Sleep', 'Sodele' and 'Labyrintus'. Enjoy!
konzertplayer.wdr3.de/jazz/konzert/wdr-3-konzert-22112014/#autoplay

2014-11-05

Flying Letters Promo Video

Let me introduce you to Flying Letters...

2014-09-07

SRF2 Culture - world class - summer concerts (Swiss radio programme)

Added to the radio broadcast on the 5th of Septemeber 2014, this short online interview can be accessed now as well:
http://www.srf.ch/kultur/im-fokus/weltklasse-sommerkonzerte/sarah-buechi-stuerzt-sich-in-jedes-musikalische-abenteuer

2014-06-18

New Bag at Schaffhausen Jazzfestival 2014

The song 'Techno Sketches' out of our slot from the 16th of May 2014 with Christy Doran's New Bag...
Enjoy!

Swiss National Radio Channel DRS 2

DRS 2 will broadcast a short interview about my new Cd 'Flying Letters' (Intakt 229) next tuesday (18th of February 2014) between 8pm and 9pm.
http://www.srf.ch

2014-02-10

Jazzpodium, Germany wrote about Flying Letters

Jazzpodium just published an article about my new project. You can check it out here on the website of Intakt Records:
http://www.intaktrec.ch/reviews.htm
Also for more informations on the release and to purchase a CD look at following links:
http://www.intaktrec.ch/release.htm
http://www.intaktrec.ch/store.htm
http://www.intaktrec.ch/229-a.htm
http://www.intaktrec.ch/musicians.htm

2014-02-10

Article in the NZZ (newspaper Zurich) on Sunday

I had the honor of getting interviewed by Manfred Papst of the NZZ. The interview will be published on coming sunday the 9th of February 2014.

NZZ Flying Letters 2014

New album - FLying Letters

Dear all,
After my residency in New York in 2011 I have now recorded the resulting new compositions in the summer last year in the radio studio of DRS and the release is just around the corner...
We are very happy to have a contract with the label intakt records, Switzerland. See our first concerts starting soon in my home country and come along...
Sarah Buechi - Flying Letters
Sarah Buechi - vocals
Stefan Aeby - piano
André Pousaz - double bass
Lionel Friedli - drums
http://flyingletters.sarahbuechi.com